Breakfast for dinner, anyone?

We had some friends over for dinner last weekend, and one remarked that one thing she missed about being single was that she could simply eat cereal for dinner, not sure whether or not she just meant that it's a lot less work (though her husband usually cooks) or she just likes cereal that much :).  But I can certainly sympathize with the idea of keeping it simple, because even though I do like cooking, I can now appreciate now that I'm married that it takes much more energy to plan ahead for meals, shop for the ingredients (luckily the hubs is great about runs to the store since he gets home from work earlier than I do) and pull something together after being tired after a full day of work - and I don't even claim to do this every night of the week.  All this and we don't even have kids yet, yikes. 

 

I usually make a mess in the kitchen, don't adhere to recipes down to the letter, and agree with many shortcut tactics a la Rachael Ray (who Grandma Smith thinks I look like, how funny is that??), so if you have ideas for good meals that can be made quickly and with only a few ingredients, send them my way (thanks Liz for posting the recipe for roasted shrimp & broccoli, I've made it twice now!).  But my partner is happy stay out of my way in the kitchen, clean up afterwards, and is not hard to please with meals, thank goodness.  I don't even think he minded last night that I served up a veggie brunch-like meal, consisting of a mostly egg-white frittata (finished product pictured) and rounded off our plates with some artichoke hearts w/ dill, chunks of honeydew melon and sprouted wheat bread topped with honey.  I had brunch, I mean dinner, on the table in under 30 minutes, tasty treat!